Movieland 55: Aim High In Creation!

By CJ Johnson

CJ interviews Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$) about her new film Aim High In Creation!, much of which was shot in Pyongyang, North Korea, featuring interviews with that secretive nation's top film directors.

Brave and passionate documentary filmmaker Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$) has gone where no filmmaker has gone before - into Pyongyang, North Korea, and the hearts and minds of that country's top filmmakers.

While planning an agitprop documentary to combat mining of her beloved and local Sydney Park, Anna hit upon Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il's 1987 manifesto The Cinema and Directing. She decided to follow its filmmaking rules to make her own piece of propoganda - and, along the way, ended up in North Korea, engaging with that secretive nation's greatest living directors.

CJ and Anna share a fascinating chat about a huge industry behind a very iron curtain.